With Democrats claiming the 2022 midterm elections will see a tidal wave of suburban women rushing to the polls to defend abortion in key swing states, Reuters conducted a focus group of women in suburban Phoenix to hear directly from them.
Democrats are not happy with what Reuters founds.
The media outlet sat down with 21 women in the suburbs of north Phoenix, where suburban women voters swung the state’s elections to Democrats like President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Mark Kelly. Democrat strategists specifically cited Phoenix as an area where voters were most likely to get out to vote to defend abortion.
Yet Reuters found only two of the 21 women said overturning Roe v. Wade would motivate them to vote.
Even half of the women who identified as pro-choice said they were still undecided whether to support Republicans or Democrats, a devastating finding among a demographic said to be overwhelmingly Democrat.
The women, like women nationwide, are more focused on crippling inflation.
“(Laura) Wilson, 61, is pro-choice, voted for Democratic President Joe Biden, and knew all about the news last week that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision giving women the right to an abortion,” Reuters reports. “Yet Wilson said she is undecided about who she will vote for this November, and abortion rights are not a priority for her.”
“Maria Alvarez, 46, a mother and a realtor, said she is pro-choice, but ‘I really don’t have a strong opinion on it,’” Reuters found. “She wants politicians who will take care of pocketbook issues. She had just completed a grocery shop that cost her $400, twice what she used to pay a year ago.”
One of the focus group members says her abortion experience now motivates her to support Republicans.
“Sherica Bailey, 33, got tearful talking about her two abortions. She is now adamantly opposed to abortion and says she will vote Republican and for any candidate who is pro-life,” Reuters reports. “‘I do support the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I had abortions during a very dark time in my life. I was naive and stupid,’ she said.”
The finding sent online Democrats into a rage, who are convinced the rest the country shares their radical beliefs and cannot comprehend differing opinions.
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Michael Brigham
Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
The country is changing and women are beginning to realize their value as a woman, a wife and a mother. I am very happy to see this turnabout regarding abortion with women having values now. Very proud of them.
The feminist movement is a huge failure
The only thing Democ rats are good at is rigging elections .
Women are finally recognizing that Democrats who push abortion (and allowing transgender men to compete against women) don’t SUPPORT women and their children (born OR unborn)…..
Stop sending baby formula to the American border joe. We don’t need you killing our babies
The old fool thinks more of illegal immigrants babies
Can’t these women who say they’re pro-choice really say they’re pro baby murder? If you’re pro-choice you’re really saying you approve of women killing their babies. That is the reality, you support abortion, you support killing babies.
If abortion rights being moved to the States to decide, or even ultimately at the State level, with so many more important issues going on in the country and abroad, fighting for pro-choice or pro-life is your primary issue when it comes to deciding who to vote for, you must have some serious personal problems directly related to abortion. Is abortion your primary go-to birth control for your active sex life? Among everything else going on that needs fixing, this one is at the top of the hierarchy on your list? This issue is the top vote motivator for Democrats, and they’re trying to inflate it and sell it with everything they’ve got.
I was a Democrat until the Democrats became Socialists, now I’m an Independent! Unfortunately, under Biden, I have witnessed the attempted destruction and division forced on America by these Socialists, culminating with their latest attempt to push the falsehood of “selective genocide”, called abortion. Think of it ! We are now divided over who has the right to end the life of another human being! If RvsW goes back to a State issue (where it always should have been), “on demand” abortion will still exist! Just means those too lazy to use pregnancy-prevention methods will have to take some responsibility for that actions and actually pay for it themselves, and not expect the American taxpayer to do it! The small percentage of cases (by statistical documentation) where health, rape, and violence are a stand-alone issues! I’m still in shock with how far we’ve fallen economically and how many freedoms we have lost under Biden to be here today, with the Left trying desperately tell the most important American issue is “who has the right to terminate the life of anther human being!” Quite sickening actually !
AMERICAN’S ARE TIRED IF THE DEMOCRATIC SYNDICATE AND LIBERAL ANTI-AMERICA HATE GROUP THE SQUAD! PEOPLE ARE MORE PRO LIFE AND AGAINST YOUR ILLEGAL AGANDATO DESTROY AMERICA! F Y A!!!
imagine, people alive, pushing to kill babies i just bet it makes their mothers soooo proud! just lunatics!
Politicians need to focus on securing the southern border, inflation,gas prices. Real people are suffering immensely for a place to live and food while democrats cater to aliens who care little about our laws and obeying them. Ppl are dying from illegal drugs being brought here
I’m a ‘suburban woman’, a union member and somewhat pro-choice but I’ll be voting Republican in 2022 and 2024 (and maybe permanently) because the Democrats have gone too far left. Sen. Schumer threatened SCOTUS justices with violence, the Dems looked the other way at anti-fa and BLM violence while feigning outrage at the far less violence committed on ‘Januuary 6th’. The Democrats stoke divisiveness by race, gender, sexuality etc…(anything they can use to divide America for their power. On top of that the LIE about laws like “Don’t say gay’ when that Florida bill doesn’t mention the word ‘gay’ but rather correctly stops teaching sexual topics to kindergarten children. The Democrats should be ASHAMED of how they are behaving.
No one doubts that Republicans can find women who are anti-abortion. The problem is, though, that the majority of American women favor continuation of Roe vs Wade because it validates a woman’s right not to have the government dictate what she does with her body or her reproduction. Government should only be involved with the bodies of Americans when there is a national health crisis in which our citizenry are at risk of a deadly disease, such as what we saw with the Covid pandemic and the need for vaccination. But, as for women and their pregnancy, this has nothing to do with endangering our citizenry. So, it is none of government’s business. Republicans can look all they want for women who are anti-abortion–however, they will always be a minority because abortion always has, and always will be, an option for unwanted or risky pregnancies, whether or not the government sanctions it or not.
Perhaps the men who don’t want to impregnate would get vasectomies – that would greatly reduce the number of abortions.
The majority of Americans continue to support Roe vs Wade, as evidenced by surveys that have been taken over the past 10 years. If Roe were to be repealed or abortion rights reduced, Americans would turn out in droves to vote the Democratic ticket as this issue is a huge one. But the big driver for Democratic voters is likely the fight against inflation which Biden has carried on so valiantly. Changing to Republicans, who have absolutely no idea on how to deal with this problem, would endanger the progress we are currently making toward returning to pre-pandemic times.
Women do have the right to do whatever they want with their body but when an innocent so very alive baby is involved it is no longer just a do whatever you want situation. That unborn baby also has rights and most importantly to come into this world alive ad well. If you did not want a child, should have thought of that before (rape excluded)you let your selfishness take control of your senses.
Off the subject matter but did you hear pesky in her White House statement use the word “women”. Maybe since she used it, she knows what a “woman” is and can explain it to judge jackson who does not know what a woman is, not even when looking in a mirror or at her mother oops birthing person who maybe should have exercise her right to do wharever with her body.
If men or women do NOT want children, but want sex, why do they not do it medically and NOT risk pregnancy all together? Just CUT the cord, you might say.
I just want to ask, What about the rights of the child that has no say in the matter to LIVE OR DIE? Think if that was YOU in there and all you wanted to do is live and become a citizen that might change the world for better. If you want to make abortion so important in your life, well then abort your life and then tell me if your for killing babies.
Also when I see the crazies screaming about the right to kill, personally I do not think many of them will have to worry about getting pregnant unless it came from the end of a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Have a Blessed day!
I understand women think aborting a baby is their right. But it is , murder, nonetheless , what right does that child have. ? Take precautions first, if you have sex. Don’t let a precious innocent baby go down the drain because you were careless and lazy. Give the child to someone who will care for it and love it. That is your right as a real woman.